Door.



B. C. ROCKWELL.

DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, I914.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

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IBYRD G. ROCKWELL, 0F CAMDEN, ARKANSAS.

DOOR.

Application filed May 2, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Brno C. ROCKWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Ouachita and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Door, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to doors.

It has been the practice, in hanging doors of different kinds such as screen doors and the like, to so mount them as to cause them, when closed, to lie within the door frame and against stop strips provided therefor.

This practice has necessitated the use of a large variety of sizes of stock doors. 7 One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a door capable of swinging against the outer or the inner side of the door frame so that a door of one size can be used in connection with door frames of different sizes. It has been found in practice that the outer and inner faces of door frames, due to poor workmanship or to warping, shrinkage, etc., are seldom, if ever, Straight from end to end and, consequently, a door even though perfectly constructed, vill not fit flat against the outer or inner side of a door frame but, instead, spaces will be left at some points between the door and frame which are of such size as to allow in sects to pass readily between the door and the frame.

One of the objectsof the present invention is to provide a door which can be mounted to swing against the outer or inner faces of a door frame or casing and which can be readily dressed to fit snugly against the casing.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention. In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is an elevation of a door embodying the present improvements, and, inasmuch as the door can include wooden panels, glass panels, screen fabric or the like, only the stiles and cross rails of the door have been shown. Fig. 2

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

Serial No. 836,004.

is an enlarged transverse section through the door and showing the same fitted against the casings of the door frame. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section through one end portion of the door on the line A E, Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates the-stiles and 2 the end rails of the door. drawings, a thin flange 3 is formed along the outer edge of each stile while a corresponding flange 4 is formed along the outer edge of each end rail, these flanges being disposed on corresponding sides of the rail and stile members, so that when the latter are assembled together the flanges 3 and. 4 conjoin to provide a continuous flange or fitting strip extending from that side of the door designed to come against the casing or wall when the door is installed. These flanges are preferably formed integrally with the rail and stile members. so as to obviate the necessity of using any fastenings which would interfere with the dressing down or shaping of the flange as hereinafter described.

As shown in Fig. 2 the door may be hingedly connected, as at 5, to one of the jambs 6, the hinge being so located that, when the door is closed, the inner edges of the flanges 3 and 4 will abut against the face of the door frame. My purpose in providing these flanges in this form is so that, in mounting the door, the flanges 3 and 4 can be readily dressed or shaped by the use of ordinary tools such as the plane or draw shave, so as to fit snugly against the faces of the door frame or the wall, and thus produce a tight fit even though there should be considerable irregularity in. the contours of the surfaces against which the door abuts. Hence these flanges should be of suflicient width to afford the necessary amount of material requisite to compensate for such irregularities in the casing surface contour as may be reasonably expected. The lower rail or the flange thereon,-of course, may be dressed to flt the sill, or to make the proper fit against the floor.

In the door illustrated, it will be observed that the parts are bilaterally similar, that is that the rails and stiles at both sides of the center line are alike, and also that the top and bottom arrangement of rails and intermediate members is identical. I find this form of construction of advantage in permitting the door to be hung with As shown in the h either end as the top, and also in permitting it to be hinged at either side. However, the arrangement of the flanges 3 and f is not dependent upon such a form of construction, the essential arrangement of said flanges being that they extend outwardly from the faces of the rails and stiles at one side of the door to provide a matching or fitting strip of appreciable width, of such thickness as to be substantial yet permit its being readily dressed down, as with a plane, and having such continuity as to make contact with all portions of the door casing against which it may be mounted to swing, and thereby form an effective closure While the improvements have been described as applied to doors, it is to be understood that they can be used equally as well in connection with window screens and the like and the term door as herein used is intended to apply to any structure whether for use in a door opening or a window opening.

What is claimed is:

1. A door having a continuous flange extending outwardly from one side thereof and following the top and side margins thereof, said flange being formed of Wood or its equivalent and relatively thin so that it may be readily dressed to vary its marginal contour, and means for swingably supporting the door on a wall structure so that the outer margin of the flange will make contact therewith when the door is in closed position.

2. A door having wooden rail and stile members provided with longitudinally extending flanges integral therewith and projecting laterally therefrom, said rails and stiles being disposed together with the extremities of said flanges in contact so that they form a fitting strip extending from one side of the door adjacent top and side margins thereof, said flanges being relatively thin so that they may be readily dressed to adapt their marginal contour to irregular surfaces.

3. A closure for wall openings comprising a wooden frame having a relatively thin flange projecting a substantial distance from one side thereof and extending continuously 'thereabout adjacent the margin to form a matching strip, said flange being integral w1th the members of the frame and being of size and sectional form such as to permit its being readily planed to conform to a varying wall contour.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BYRD C. ROCKVJELL.

Witnesses:

L. M. STERN,

LEONARD POWELL.

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